While all citizens share in blame for lax municipal ethics the Wagner regime has seen serious problems in the schools, law enforcement and fiscal policies.

While most Delaware citizens who fought in the war served in the regiments of the state, some served in companies on the Confederate side in Maryland and Virginia Regiments.

While largely left out of the thrust for increasing rights of citizens, as the question was left indeterminate in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, activists such as Pauline Léon and Théroigne de Méricourt agitated for full citizenship for women.

While most of the nations of Western Europe had adopted bicameral parliaments by the end of the 19th century, in 1906 the Finns adopted a unicameral parliamentary system, and female citizens were included in universal suffrage.

While East German propaganda was based on the benefits of the GDR's social programs and the alleged constant threat of a West German invasion, many of her citizens looked to the West for political freedoms and economic prosperity.

While the French settlers debated how new revolutionary laws would apply to Saint-Domingue, outright civil war broke out in 1790 when the free men of color claimed they too were French citizens under the terms of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

While there is a small population of British citizens living in Mauritius, most of whom have Mauritian nationality, few identify as being Mauritian.

While the term propaganda has justifiably acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples ( e. g. Nazi Propaganda used to justify the Holocaust ), propaganda in its original sense was neutral, and could refer to uses that were generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to the police, among others.

While Bennett was, and is still, often criticized for lack of compassion for the impoverished masses, he stayed up through many nights reading and responding to personal letters from ordinary citizens asking for his help, and often dipped into his personal fortune to send a five-dollar bill to a starving family.

While the U. S. Supreme Court majority in 1896 Plessy explicitly upheld only " separate but equal " facilities ( specifically, transportation facilities ), Justice John Marshall Harlan in his dissent protested that the decision was an expression of white supremacy ; he predicted that segregation would " stimulate aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens ," " arouse race hate " and " perpetuate a feeling of distrust between races.

While four of the listed rouge states met all these transgressions, Cuba, though still known for severely abusing its citizens and its strident criticism of the United States, no longer met all the transgressions required for a rogue state and was put on the list solely because of the political influence of the American Cuban community and specifically that of the Cuban American National Foundation.

While those who were born in these towns could technically enjoy all the rights of native French citizens, substantial legal and social barriers prevented the full exercise of these rights, especially by those seen by authorities as ' full blooded ' Africans.

While the Singapore Department of Statistics reports overall population figures for Singapore ( 4. 48 million in 2006 ), as a matter of policy, it only provides more detailed demographic breakdown analysis for the approximately 80 % of the population who are Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents ( collectively termed ' residents ').

While the program has been in place for more than a decade and results can be seen in the public sector, the private sector is still lagging behind with citizens only representing 0. 34 % of the private sector workforce.

" While expressing its belief in the individual responsibility of citizens and corporations, the party maintains that government plays a " vital role " in establishing and maintaining the highest level of decency in America's community standards.

While the city had lost about a third of its 15, 000 citizens during the siege of 1574, it quickly recovered to 45, 000 inhabitants in 1622, and may have come near to 70, 000 circa 1670.

While the tones used vary in some locations, the most common tone, the " Alert ," is widely used by municipalities to warn citizens of impending severe weather, particularly tornadoes.

While the enforcement in theory could lead to a Big Brother-style surveillance society, in practice social convention among the Minds prohibits them from watching, or interfering in, citizens ' lives unless requested, or unless they perceive severe risk.

While voting, citizens are acting in a unique sovereign or " owner " capacity ( instead of being a subject of the laws, as is true outside of elections ) in selecting their government servants.

While not effecting a return to the old Christian order, the treaty did provide certain civil guarantees to the Church, acknowledging " the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion " as that of the " majority of French citizens.

While the latter ruling was famously defied by Jackson, the actions of the Jackson administration were not isolated because state and federal officials had violated treaties without consequence, often attributed to military exigency, as the members of individual Native American nations were not automatically United States citizens and were rarely given standing in any U. S. court.

While the Decius himself may have intended the edict as a way to reaffirm his conservative vision of the Pax Romana and to reassure Rome's citizens that the empire was still secure, it nevertheless sparked a " terrible crisis of authority as various Christian bishops and their flocks reacted to it in different ways.

While this time upset citizens did not call for the queen's abdication because the true object of their wrath, Princess Beatrix, would then be queen, they did start to question the value of having a monarchy at all.

While they supported limited suffrage, they saw voting as a privilege, rather than as a right.

While the Third Estate demanded and was granted " double representation " so as to balance the First and Second Estate, voting was to occur " by orders " – votes of the Third Estate were to be weighted – effectively canceling double representation.

While First-past-the-post voting is commonly found in countries based on the British parliamentary system, and in Westminster elections in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh National Assembly use a form of PR known as the mixed member system, after New Zealand adopted it in 1993.

While runoff voting is designed to ensure that each individual candidate elected is supported by a majority of those in their constituency, if used to elect an assembly it does not ensure this result on a national level.

While the Millers ended up sixth place in an eight-team race, Williams ended up hitting. 366 with 46 home runs and 142 RBIs while receiving the American Association's Triple Crown and finishing second in the voting for Most Valuable Player voting.

While Prince of Wales, he had to be dissuaded from breaking with constitutional precedent by openly voting for Gladstone's Representation of the People Bill ( 1884 ) in the House of Lords.

While voters have virtually no instrumental incentive to vote, they do have an expressive interest in voting.

While the German occupiers only minimally involved themselves in the voting, those whom the Germans first chose often refused participation to avoid becoming exploited by the occupiers.

While the snap 1988 legislative elections saw a return to two-ballot majority voting, the FN was also hurt by the limited campaign period and the depart of many notables.

While a member of a governing party is free to vote their conscience, they are constrained by the fact that voting against the party line ( especially in confidence votes ) might lead to expulsion from their party.

While neither company has any ownership in the other, the majority of the voting power of the shares in both companies is owned by Charlie Ergen.

While disfranchisement literally affects the right to vote rather than the right to direct representation, various policies have been applied to voting systems in attempts to reduce the number of " unrepresented " voters.

While his first two years were viewed as solid but unspectacular, he emerged as a rising star in, winning the American League batting championship with a batting average of. 321, and also leading the league in doubles and walks, finishing sixth in the Most Valuable Player voting.

While North Carolina is historically a conservative state, Wake County is more of a swing voting area.

While it is always possible in a secret ballot not to express any preference by filling in the voting form incorrectly, formal blank votes are counted, while spoiled papers are simply ignored.

“ While he tried honestly to show himself as a friend of Poland, Warsaw forced his departure, after his neutrality in Silesian voting was questioned ” by Germans and Poles.

“ While he tried honestly to show himself as a friend of Poland, Warsaw forced his departure, after his neutrality in Silesian voting was questioned ” by Germans and Poles.

While the voting went off without a hitch and little to no violence was seen within the city, a minimal amount of voters participated ( estimated to be in the 700 person range for the eastern half of the city, according to 2nd BCT officials ).

While the Act did require that voting rules and procedures be applied equally to all races, it did not abolish the concept of voter " qualification ", that is to say, it accepted the idea that citizens do not have an automatic right to vote but rather might have to meet some standard beyond citizenship.

While Mexicans of Spanish descent ran the state politics and constituted most of the elite of New Mexico since colonial times, property requirements and English literacy requirements were imposed in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas in order to prevent Mexican Americans from voting.

While Pawlenty said he was " confident " in his right to use unallotment, the Minnesota Supreme Court ultimately decided against him, voting 4 to 3 in a decision in May 2010.

While Selanne finished as second runner-up for the Lady Byng Trophy, Kariya finished sixth in voting.